Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Three Years and Six Months

From the NYT:
Mr. Bush, in an order dated Sunday and released on Tuesday, said, "I hereby determine that it is in the best interest of the United States that Jose Padilla be released from detention by the secretary of defense and transferred to the control of the attorney general for the purpose of criminal proceedings against him."
Jose Padilla, who has been held as an "enemy combatant" since May, 2002, has finally been charged with a crime. It's a rare nod to the "constitution" by the president. Are we supposed to be impressed that W realized now was the wrong time to revise the constitution?
Administration officials acknowledge that Mr. Padilla's detention has posed a growing conundrum, with even some conservatives questioning the rationale for detaining an American citizen captured on American soil without charging him.
A "conundrum"? Seriously? "Even some conservatives"? All the intelligent conservatives I know have seen this as a problem all along.

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